Happy New Year

I hope everyone had an enjoyable new year. The last month has seemed to be non stop for me. I spent the beginning of December in the isle of man training and trying to get faster on my dirtbike. If I wasn’t able to accomplish those things I was definitely able to get used to riding in frigid weather over there. After that David and I flew back to Puerto Rico to spend christmas with my family. It was funny how we went from one extreme temperature to the other. It was really nice to go back home and just sit around for a week though. While I did enjoy being down there, the day couldn’t come soon enough that I could ride my bike again. I only had a couple days after christmas to get a last bit of testing on my 09 before heading to Texas for the wma cup on new year’s day. 

  The WMA cup was held at Freestone county raceway and was a good race to see where I was after all the work I had been doing during the off season. Practice day went really well. I felt solid on the track and my bike was working awesome. I was consistently a couple seconds faster then Patterson all day which I was really pumped about. I felt really smooth on the track and everything was coming really easy even though the track was getting really rough. Things were a little different on race day however and I knew they would be. The track didn’t get rough at all because it was all little bikes and beginners racing on the day we raced. It ended up just being a race at terminal velocity. You could go as fast as your bike would take you and there was nothing to slow you down. The first moto I was trying to play catch up after a mediocre start but was only able to pull in Patterson to about 3 seconds. The second moto I got the hole shot with Patterson in second. I was getting frustrated that I wasn’t able to pull away as quickly as I knew I should. Towards the end of the race I started to break her and get a little lead but I made a dumb mistake and went down handing her the win. It was good to see where I stood after part of the off season and I know I’m on the right track. I have a lot more work ahead of me but I am more driven then ever and hopefully this will be the year I can put it all together. I’l keep you posted and until then, Have FUn! TG